Quotes

As NASA engineer Mary Shafer once articulated, “Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real

We want to be happy, and seem to believe that happiness consists of more than just favorable experiences. It requires doing something more sustained,

I no longer believed there was anyone or anything “out there” in the cosmos who policed my life, or rewarded and punished me for

Creating happiness means, above all, spending our lives enabled to do what we are best at and enjoy. These miserable reprobates, who can’t stand

necessarily mean that it is any easier to break from cherished convictions, not to mention the prevailing views of one’s own era. Humboldt had

Possible to deduct entire $78,586 of F-350 in first year of ownership if you claim more than 50 business use under section 179 deduction

$127 million construction grant, plus 10.6 million annual operating subsidy for Seine Musicale, a 1,150 classical music hall in a western suburb of Paris.

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam By Barbara W. Tuchman (1984) 5. ‘Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than

that easy going, not evilly intentioned, potential immorality that regards common property as common prey

As long as we are heads of our own houses we shall employ what men we choose, and when we can’t, we’ll nail up